The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-11
O'BRIEN OFF FOR CANADA
LANSDoWNE TO BE RAKED OVER
THE GOALS.

| FOSSlDl6.
NEW YORK, May 10-The reception COM
mittee appointed to meet Editor William
| O'Brien engaged a tug and started from
| Castle Garden at 3:15 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon. The tug reached quarantine at
| 4:90 o'clock in the afternoon, and took on
board Deputy Health Officer Smith. The
| Umbria was found near the hghtship at 9 &c
O'Clock. The big ship was lighted from stem
! to stern and her decks were crowded with
people. The crowd on the tug began tc
cheer and call for Mr.. O'Brien, as
the tug neared the Umbria Some
passengers of the latter began to answer
with cheers for the Queen. Mingled with
this came the strains of 'God Save Ireland
| from one or two The noise made by both
| parties rendered it impossible for the two
captains to understand each other The tug
drifted past, came back and tried to near
the ship.
| TAKEN INTO THE TUG.
| Capt McMicken, of the Umbria, refused
| to allow line to be cast to the tug or tc
allow Mr.. O'Brien to leave the ship until the
health officer had boarded her. When he
understood that the health officer was on
the tug a line was thrown.
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of the ship the line parted and the tug went
adrift but the committee pulled him into
the tug, and formal address of welcome
was read, to which Mr.. O'Brien responded
with brief but eloquent thanks. He started
for Montreal tonight
The steamship fleet that arrived since Sat
urday, including the Umbria, is still outside
the bar. No passengers except Mr.. O'Brien
| have yet been transferred as the health all
| will tctpo tn
fer until after passing quarantine.
THE REPLY TO THE GREETING.
In reply to the address of greeting on
board the tug, Mr. O'Brien said: ~ thank
you again for this very kind and hospitable
welcome, which shows that love for the
| green little island is still strong in your
souls, as it always is in the hearts of our
countrymen. Every Irishman is a better
Irishman for coming to America. AS we
passed Galley Head pier fishermen came out
in their little boats and cheered us. The
last things we saw were bonfires on the hill
Now, after 5000 miles over the ocean, and
miles away from land, the first thing we
find is a number of enthusiastic Irishmen to
greet us. We came out upon delicate
task.
LANSDowNE HIS OBJECT.
"We come to let Irish-C Canadians know
Just what kind of q rackrenting champion
| Lord Lansdowne is. We are going to tell
3000,000 of Canadians how Ireland is being
depopulated by the brutal system he repre-
sents We have done one thing during the
past three months. We have stopped pay
| ing rents to racluenters Not one man who
was evicted has broken. faith with the
policy. We made the landlords support
| every evicted tenant out of the rents.
| Lansdowne was the first to draw the sword
against the poor people. We know what
the results will be-victory.
| BRIGHTER THAN EVER.
"Ireland's prospects are now brighter
| than ever. We will show this Lans-
downe that we have got as good men as he
had. If we go down it will be with our
faces to the foe; but don't think we are
| going down i'll the brutal storm that these
tyrants have raised. The hearts of the peo-
pie are with us. Confidence is the cause we
represent 1t is your support of our cause
and our great leader, Charles s. Parnell,
| that has brought victory almost within
range of us. thank you kindly for this
reception"
| LoYALIsTs ON THE STEAMER.
At an interview at his hotel Mr.. O'Brien,
after alluding to the band of British 10y
alists who had tried to make it uncomforta-
| bic for him on the voyage over, he said: 81
| cannot wait to speak in New York, as much
ada, and | must guard all my strength. Be
sides, they have the right first to hear me.
| | shall start for Montreal tonight, and shall
make my first speech there. | hear Irelands
| friends have been refused every large hall in
| Montreal, but that will make no difference,
for, if necessary, shall speak in the public
squares"
THE LINE OF HIS SPEECHES.
"Have you any fears of troublep
| "Not the least. so to Canada on a mis-
| sion popular alike with Protestant and
| Catholic, and will set forth the wrongs of
| the farmers of Ulster as forcibly as those of
the toilers of the South. There isn't re-
| ligious question in the matter. appreciate
| the intended honor of an escort from the
| Irishmen of New York, but have declined
| it, and shall go TO Canada just as a simple
| traveller on u peaceful errand.n He further
said thatthe coercion bill will pass, but that it
will react on its promoters and will certainly
| be repealed when its obnoxious provisions
become more so by enforcement. Speaking
! of the Parnell letter, of which so much has
| been said, he asserted most emphatically
| that it was a forgery, and very clumsy
| one at that. He would not say that Piggot
was the forger, but he spoke Of him as a
renegade, and said that if he did not write
| it he was fully capable of just such thing
| Mr.. O'Brien says if he gets back from Can
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win spend week il speaking in New York,
| Philadelphia and Boston.
| The twelve Irish constables who resigned
their Offices because they We're compelled 70
| carry on eyic6iOns, and who arrived in New
| York last week, to-day announced their in
! tention of becoming citizens Of the United
States by fling their applications in the
| Court of Common Pleas They have all
been employed as statesmen in a large cloth
| ing house.
| A DYNAMITE CRANK.
CHICAGO, May 10-There was a sensa-
| tional incident at the anti-coercion meeting
at Battery ID last night. A few minutes
| before . O'clock q nan was seen pushing his
way toward tho platform. He was busily
| engaged in distributing flaming red circi-
| lar Word went round that the man was an
| intruder and one of the committee was sent
| TO know his business aud how he came to
| be disturbing the meeting. One glance at
the circular settled it and the peddler of the
| red paper was hustled to the door. He re-
sisted and fought with the tenacity and
courage of n bulldog. Two or three stall
| wart policemen were called to the scene and
the intruder was dragged out. His pockets
were stuffed with circulars, and as the
| officers shook him into submission showers
| Of the red handbiiis fell from every fold in
| his clothes No one knew who he was. He
was asked TO explain himself and
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